And a local deli makes a wonderful turkey and bacon (with lettuce, tomato, mayo) sandwich. Yummy!

When the corned beef is piled high and sliced really thin -

when I lived in the Northeast, grilled pastrami and swiss was its equal!

it's a tomato sandwich -- thick slices of homegrown tomato, salt and pepper, a smidge of butter or Miracle Whip on thick-sliced homemade bread.




I'll be right back. I gotta go to the kitchen....

That's my go-to sandwich. I'm not much of a sandwich person, but give me a tomato sandwich with salt and pepper any day of the week. I usually toast the bread and also put a bit of butter and *gasp* a slice of processed cheese. I HATE processed cheese slices, always have......except for on tomato sandwiches and in grilled cheese, LOL. I guess it reminds me of being a kid (my mom loved tomatoes and made tomato sandwiches for supper often and they always had that slice of processed cheese. She used to put bacon on them too, but I don't, go figure).

With toasted bread, it would get just the tiniest bit melty -- yum. My most common addition is a thin slice of onion.

Well, bacon sometimes, too, but becomes a completely different sandwich!

I am taking chemo right now and my stomach is queasy and I only want simple food. Yesterday, I heated up some tomato soup and then toasted some buttermilk bread on one side, then turned it over and put a slice of American cheese on the other side and let it toast until it was melty and just a little brown.

So good, I would have liked a dill pickle and some chips, but felt like that would be pushing it.

your taste buds, digestive tract, etc. It's nice that you can enjoy some thing and your tomato soup with toasted cheese sounds like it would hit the spot for anyone needing comfort food! Hope you're getting a bit better each and every day.

That's my favorite, too. Tomatoes are a migraine trigger for me, but every August I have one tomato sandwich with a very thick slab of a beefsteak tomato between two sliced of buttered toast. Yes, I get a migraine. It's worth it.

That's in a class of its own.

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I usually gravitate to the roast pork and the joint close to me does a thin layer of pate with that and all the wonderful crunchy veg.

The sandwich of my dreams however is one I will never have again. Cream Cheese on Thomas Date Nut Bread....Jeeze I miss that.

After my recent knee replacement and weeks on the pain pills I became friendly with prunes. I soaked them in orange juice and pureed them with orange zest. I made sandwiches of lightly toasted raisin bread with a thin layer of goat cheese and some prune puree. Sometimes I even made it into stuffed french toast

on toast with Mayo.

Just like the classic BLT, but replace the bacon with Spam sliced and fried up nice and crisp.

Maybe this is in the archives, but WHAT exactly is in Spam?

Actually, Spam is pork trimmings that include pork fat, spices, and a cure like that used in ham. It's an emulsified pork product put into cans instead of pork casings.

I guess there's no real difference in buying it versus bacon, for instance.

on a serious whole grain bread.

There is something just oh so delicious.

Best when eaten in New England, but not bad even around here.

'Ancient Grain bread' (whole wheat, millet, quinoa, flax and another one or two), 'pepperdew bruschetta' (red peppers, garlic, olive oil), pepper jack cheese, mild banana peppers, alfalfa sprouts, romaine lettuce.

After that, maybe a croque monsieur (which I probably just spelled completely wrong) or a monte cristo.

Soft, ripe brie on sourdough (and I mean proper sourdough). I'm not sure if this counts, but my absolute favorite is a toasted plain bagel, with plain cream cheese, lox, and a very thin slice of onion. If you were to throw a few capers in, I would not object.

Do any of you know about the precursor to the sandwich, the ipswich? This was a slice of bread between two pieces of meat and/or cheese. It was never very popular, as it tended to make the consumer's hands messy. And the jam ipswich was universally considered to be a total failure.

marinated and char-grilled skirt steak, roasted red peppers, red onions, tomatoes and avocado, preferably on homemade bread. it's what we eat every time we go up into the mountains.

or 'grinduh' if you are from RI. An awesome Italian sub with premium cold cuts, provolone cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, and oil and vinegar. With a side of pepperoncini.

My runner up is a steak sub with onions and mushrooms (sorry, no cheese on this one, Philly folks.)

As a kid in TX, we went to the "ice house" - which meant a corner market, for a "coke" - which meant any kind of soda.

Living in RI meant traveling 20 miles in any direction, and the lingo changes dramatically.

Same thing about New England in general.

When I moved to Cali in 1987, regionalisms faded. It all became 'the West' for hundreds of miles...

'Pop', 'coke', "soder' (soda), I love those maps of what people call certain things.

I still drink from a "bubbler" (water fountain).

Butter & sliced radishes. I no longer salt the radishes, but it is still yummy to me.

here's one my kids used to love. Hard boiled eggs, grated raw carrot, a tiny bit of sweet pickle relish and some mayo. Made this egg salad too many times to count. The kids are grown, but I know they still make it. Good on rye or whole wheat bread.

Here's another, I used to make this and take to work on the day before payday, we had a bunch of young programmers and I knew they were always short of money right before payday, so I'd bring some simple food for them to snack on like this sandwich spread or a bean dip salad with tortilla chips.

Cream cheese mixed with finely chopped green bell pepper, finely chopped carrot, finely chopped bacon, chopped green onion. Add some of that Cajun seasoning, Tony ? can remember the last name. Good on health nut bread. Add some tomato slices and a little lettuce.

Diced celery, apples, pecans with red leaf lettuce and mayo on whole grain or in a spinach tortilla wrap.

Used to make another version with tuna, mushrooms, pecans, diced celery and pimentos. red leaf lettuce and sliced black olives on homemade whole grain bread.

And a tuna salad mix with hard boiled egg, sweet pickle relish and lettuce on whole wheat.

Or sliced swiss cheese, german mustard, red leaf lettuce, sliced tomatoes on whole grain bread.

Don't eat bread much now, so i just toss these in a bowl of romaine, etc.

Thinking about trying out the one at Arby's that is like the first but with grilled chicken. Not certain I'll do it because of the cost and the distance to get there.

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Basically the grilled Ham & Cheese, but done right:

Nice fresh Pullman loaf slices, with a good mustard. Then Gruyere Cheese and Black Forest ham slices. Butter the outside of the bread and toast until the cheese is melted and the bread is golden brown.

For a variation; the Croque Madame. Add a fried egg in the filling.

Simple, but yummy.

with a big fat slice of tomato, fresh basil on rye. YUM!

In Torrington, CT. Don't even know if it's still around, should have checked last time I was up there..

Lot's good ideas to try!

but I love local strawberries on pepperidge farm ultra thin sliced white bread with with a spread made from whipped cream cheese with a bit of heavy cream and maple syrup beat in and chopped mint sprinkled over the strawberries.